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Photo credit
Tony Hadley
H. Nigel Thomas
BIO
Biography

H. Nigel Thomas emigrated from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He now lives in the Greenfield Park suburb of Montreal. He is a graduate of Concordia University, McGill University, and Universite de Montreal. Until 2006 he was professor of US literature at Universite Laval. His short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in several journals and anthologies. He is the author of thirteen books: six novels: Spirits in the Dark (1993), Behind the Face of Winter (2001), Return to Arcadia (2007), No Safeguards (2015), Fate's Instruments (2018), Easily Fooled (2021); three collections of short stories: How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow (2005), Lives: Whole and Otherwise (2010), When the Bottom Falls Out and Other stories (2014); two collections of poems: Moving through Darkness (1999), The Voyage (2021); and two academic books: From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel (1988) and Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists (2006). Lives: Whole and Otherwise is available in French with the title Des  vies cassées,  and Behind the Face of  Winter with the title De glace et d'ombre. 

He holds the following awards: 2000 Jackie Robinson Professional of the Year Award; 2013 Université Laval Homage aux Créateurs; 2020 Martin Luther King Junior Achievement Award, 2021 Quebec Writers' Association Judy Mappin Community Award; 2022 Canada Council for the Arts John Molson Prize for the Arts. He was shortlisted for the QSPELL 1994 Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize; in 2015 for the Paragraphe Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize, in 2015 for Le prix Carbet des lycéens.

 See his website www.hnigelthomas.org for full details of his publications, etc.  

ADDRESS
City: Greenfield Park, Province/Territory: Quebec
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, poetry, literary criticism
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Easily Fooled
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2021
Title
The Voyage
Publisher
Mawenzi House
Year
2021
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Quebec Writers' Federation Judy Mappin Award
Year
2021
Name
Canada Council for the Arts John Molson Prize for the Arts
Year
2022
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
any size
Presentation Genre
Fiction and poetry
Presentation Length
various
Presentation Description
Presentation description

Workshops and readings

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